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Higgins Storm Chasing first posted the footage to Facebook calling the swirl a 'tornado' however other users were quick to describe the event as a 'willy willy' or 'dust devil'.

Bureau of Meteorology forecaster Jim Richardson says that the tornado was most likely a landspout.

'We can't officially confirm it, but we do have unconfirmed reports indicating that there was a landspout near the Airport, southeast of DFO,' Mr Richardson told MyGC.

'This is due to pretty moist low levels, unstable environments and airmass boundaries sort of colliding ... creating this very localised, very short-lived activity.'

After issuing a warning at 3.30pm for storm activity that could hit Brisbane's CBD, the bureau downgraded the warning by 4.18 stating that severe thunderstorms were no longer affecting the southeast Queensland area.

The Bureau of Meteorology have described the storm as being most likely a landspout

Some users have described the storm as a 'willy willy' or dust devil

The warnings come on top of well-above-average temperatures for Brisbane in March.

Temperature reached as high as 35.7C at 1.21pm which is almost 8C above the state's average for March.

It comes only days after wild weather hit the country's east-coast, with torrential rain and hail storms the size of golf-balls seen across Queensland and New South Wales.

Lawnton, north of Brisbane, was covered in ominous clouds as wild weather lashed the east-coast on Tuesday